DUE TO OUTSTANDING TURNOUT AND SPACE LIMITATIONS, ON-SITE REGISTRATIONS MAY NOT BE ACCEPTED.
Date: Saturday April 8, 2023
Venue: Radisson Hotel Red Deer (David Thompson West & Centre)
Address: 6500 – 67 Street, Red Deer, AB, T4P 1A2
Organizer: Sean Wu
E-mail: wuxiangyu06@gmail.com
Tournament Director: TBD
Format: 12 Sections (Grades 1-12). The exact format of each section will depend on the number of participants but players should expect to play 5 games.
CFC and Chess’N Math (CMA) rated. Open to Alberta residents only.
Time control: Game in 25 minutes with a 5-second delay.
Entry fee:
Regional Chess Challenge participants: $35 if pre-registered online by 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 6.
Non-Regional Chess Challenge participants: $40 if pre-registered online by 10 p.m. on Thursday, April 6.
All players: $45 afterwards and on-site (on-site may not be available depending on the number of registrants).
Registration
Fill out the registration form Alberta Chess Challenge 2023. Payment should be made by e-transfer to calgarychessschool@gmail.com (or if necessary, by cash on-site). The deadline for online registration is Thursday, April 6, 2023 @ 10:00 p.m.
Approximate Schedule on April 8
Registration: 9:45 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.
Rounds 1 and 2: 10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Lunch: 12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Rounds 3 to 5: 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Tie-breaks (if necessary) and awards: immediately after the completion of the last round.
Prizes in each section
1st, 2nd, and 3rd place finishers will receive trophies.
Section winners will represent Team Alberta at the 2023 Canadian Chess Challenge. The ACA will provide a $250 travel grant to help offset expenses for travel to Montreal, Quebec for the May 20-22 tournament. Travel reimbursement policies apply.
JUNIOR DRAW RULE
In junior only events, the draw offer and acceptance are only allowed once both players have played 30 moves. For games without scoresheets, allowing the draw will be at the TD’s discretion.
Tie-break procedure
a. There will be playoff games for 1st place ties.
b. No playoff games for 2nd or 3rd place.
See playoff and tiebreak procedure.
Pre-registered Players
| Grade 1 Nguyen, Kaiser Muneer Hussain Senthilkumar, Advik Chen, Owen Gao, Anne | Grade 2 Zhang, Finley Li, Oliver Chan, Calvin Singh, Aarav Hughey, Vienna Shamanth, Saanvi Yan, Morgan Nowacki, Adam Yang, Jesse Mak, Julian | Grade 3 Zhao, Lucy Nguyen, Dennis Wang, Lucas Tolentino, Kaisa Angela Prokopiv, Maksym Chevvan, Shri Sahasra Lu, Austin Vinotha Sathish Kumar, Lakshan |
| Grade 4 Bhaumik, Rishi Funk, Karlee Sheng, Jack Wang, Elsa Lai, Zhihui Daiyan, Kian Li, Ryan Christopher, Jack Deeg, Micah Negm, Ismael Dahlke, Zeth Matthew Zhao Pinzhu Castro, Joshua Wong, Jonah Perla, Manny Zhang, Eileen | Grade 5 Ma, Nicholas Chan, Bryan Chung, Elliot Jin, Linus Huynh, Nathan Xu, Michael Wang, April Nguyen, Leo Gupta, Dhruv Johnson, Joshua Lee, Ethan Ritchie, Isaac | Grade 6 Zhang, Felix Chan, Allison Ivanescu, Matthew Harrington, Luka Rehill, Naveen Vong, Nathan Nguyen, Katherine Skorinskiy, Oleg Singh, Jovan Johal, Jaiven |
| Grade 7 Martin, Dominic Inozemtseva, Milana Alpuri Aaqil Ahmed Saini, Eshan Williams, Benjamin Wu, Jonathan Yan, Henry Arthithan Murallidaran Choi, Brian Huang, Jonas Langdon, Kade Stadt, Simon Aydin Samei Luo, Eric | Grade 8 Zelenitsky, Kyle Williams, Matthew Gao, Nuno Rostyslav Spiian Purevjamts, Anu Jarvie, Kyle Suo, Luke Swertz, Ben Tran, Tri Vedula, Pranay | Grade 9 Jin, Eric Zhang, James Usman, Ali Anand Chandra Goulko, Aleksey Chevvan, Siddharth Singh Jewell, Rosalina Offengenden, Ron Bocan, Richard |
| Grade 10 Yang, Vincent Srinivasan, Hemant Luo, Edward | Grade 11 Ivanescu, Mark Hoekman, Samuel | Grade 12 Superceanu, Andi Ibrahimov, Nijat |